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* Belldandy does this in the "Fighting Wings" duology of the ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' anime. Lind grows a flower in the palm of her hand, showing that even [[Badass]] [[An Axe to Grind|halberd-wielding]] [[Valkyries]] have a softer side.

 

* Shalla Bal in one ''[[Marvel Comics|Silver Surfer]]'' story. She is able to return life to their homeworld after the Surfer infuses her with some of his cosmic power.

* In ''[[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]]:'' "The Nature of the Beast", there's a legend that the monk who first killed the St. Leonard Worm was injured fighting the dragon, and lilies grew from the places in the valley where his blood fell. Then when Hellboy fights the Worm, lilies grow from where ''his'' blood falls. This is significant because Hellboy is a half demon and the prophesied [[The Antichrist|Antichrist]] equivalent of the setting, however he is so staunchly good he is (up to now) an [[Anti-Anti-Christ]].

* In an early issue of ''[[The Books of Magic]]'', the protagonist has just defeated the Manticore, the secret plague that's been turning the Fairy world into a desert, but has been badly wounded in the process. His blood is chock-full of magic, though, so even as he's bleeding out stumbling around, his blood droplets restore plant life to the world.

 

* Shishigami, in ''[[Princess Mononoke]]''. It should be noted that the Shishigami doesn't give just life but both life and death—and the plants that spring up from its footsteps immediately die and rot away. It seems to make plants go through their life cycle faster. {{spoiler|But when the Shishigami is decapitated, his headless and still-moving body turns into a [[Walking Wasteland]].}}

* The Spring Sprite in the "Firebird Suite" segment of ''[[Fantasia]] 2000'', most likely inspired by ''[[Princess Mononoke]]''.

* The [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'' has Aslan do this after resurrecting from the Stone Table.

* In the ''[[Barbie]]'' adaption of ''The Nutcracker'', Clara walks through a snowy landscape and wherever her feet step, the snow and ice melts and little purple flowers bloom in the melted footprints. She doesn't notice.

* The Nature Elemental from ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy II: The Golden Army]]'' subverts this trope, since it's a [[Designated Villain]] (but also [[Last of His Kind|last of its kind]]).

* In ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'', after Ofelia {{spoiler|dies after refusing to harm her half-brother}}, the dead tree whose parasitic frog she removed has a single, beautiful flower bloom on it where she briefly touched it. This is appropriate considering her actions {{spoiler|allowed her reentry into the fairy kingdom, "redeeming" her soul from base humanity and making her something close to a saint}}. Director commentary runs to the effect of "Even if all the effect she had on the world was the blooming of a single flower on a dead tree, then her life had meaning."

== Literature ==

* ''[[Discworld]]''

** Lúthien Tinúviel in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' does this. [[Troperiffic|And how]].

** In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', King Theoden's ''horse'' does this to its grave. The horse was buried where he was killed, and grass grew lushly over the grave. (In contrast to the Nazgul [[Giant Flyer]]'s death-spot, which [[Walking Wasteland|remained forever barren]].) Also happens with other burial sites, with those of evil beings staying barren.

 

== Music Videos ==

* Ditto for the video of Linkin Park's "In the End", where Mike Shinoda leaves a trail of growing grass.

 

 

== New Media ==

 

== Religion ==

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]''

** The Flowering kith of Fairest cause flowers to spring wherever they step... though it takes months for them to do so in the real world, while in Arcadia and The Hedge it's instantaneous.

** Same thing with the Spring Court and their Mantle. At low levels, those close to them feel a gentle, fragrant breeze, but at high levels, plants tend to grow out of the sidewalk if they stick around long enough.

* Benediction of Archgenesis, a Solar Circle Sorcery spell from ''[[Exalted]]'', is basically this. However, unlike most examples, you actually have to [[Cast from Hit Points|cut your feet and trail the blood around the area you want blessed with life.]]

** There's also the Moon And Earth Blessing from the Ink Monkeys, a Lunar Charm that allow them to do the same, on a smaller scale. On the other hand, they can do it as a dramatic action, it doesn't require anywhere near as much essence much less a massive blood sacrifice, and they can do it any day of the year rather than just on the first day of the first month.

** In ''Return of the Scarlet Empress'', Gaia's return to Creation includes this trope.

 

== Video Games ==

** Alex Mercer himself gets in on the act: his health regeneration powers are so potent that {{spoiler|his stepping into the residue of the Supreme Hunter he just killed allows it to ''come back to life''}}.

* Another evil example in ''[[Thief]]''. {{spoiler|Viktoria leaves mosses at her touch until she shows her true form as a dryad, when creeping vines sprout from around her feet and grow in her wake.}}

** God also has this power.

* In ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'' there is a code that makes daisies appear when a zombie dies.

* The second season opening of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' depicts Jimmy as being able to turn anything he touches into a happy, beautiful thing. He never has this power in the show, though.

* This happens every Friday the 13th for Misery in ''[[Ruby Gloom]]''.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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